Snap-fastener.



T. R. HYDE, JRt SNAP FASTENBR.v

APPLIQATION FILED JANZ, 1906;

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THEOPHILUS R. I-IYDE, JR., OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO SCOVILL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

SNAP-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application iled January 2, 1906. Serial No. 294.157.

No. 846,312. Patented March 5, 190'?.

To @ZZ whom 7125 may concern:

Beit known that I, THEOPHILUs R. HYDE, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing i at Waterbury, lin the county oi New Haven and State oi Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Snap-Fasteners, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to that class oi' snapfasteners for gloves and other articles wherein a socket member having a button finish is provided with an eyelet which is clenched in the stud-engaging member, so as to connect such stud-engaging member with the head or button iinish and at the same time secure the socket to the glove or other article.

The invention consists of the socket member of a snap-fastener wherein the head or button iinish is made of horn or other natural material or artilicial composition of matter, containing in its back a recess in which is expanded a substantially funnel-shaped eyelet, said eyelet being used to secure the stud'- engaging member oi' the socket in place and to secure the socket as a whole to a glove or other article.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention, in the several ligures oiwhich like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is a cross-section showing detached the three parts of one embodiment of my invention. Fig. 2 is a cross-section showing the head or button iinish and the eyelet united and also showing the stud-engaging member in a position to be engaged by the eyelet. Fig. 3 is a cross-section showing` the parts of Figs. 1 and 2 united to a piece of material. Fig. 4 is a cross-section showing detached the head or button nish and a cappedeyelet. Fig. 5 is a cross-section showing the parts of Fig. 4 united for use. Fig. 6 is a cross-section showing a socket having a fastening-eyelet provided with a ringflange. Fig. 7 is a cross-section showing a socket provided with a metal lining in which the funnelshaped eyelet is expanded.

My invention is embodied, broadly stated, in a snap-fastener socket having a head or button iinish of horn, hoof, or other natural material or of an artificial composition of matter having the desired contour and provided with a recess in its back in which an I eyelet of approximate or conventional funi nel shape is secured-as, for example, by eX- panding or spreading its flange therein-so that the two will be united in such intimate and secure manner that they will stand ordinary handling and ei'liectively serve to unite the stud-engaging member with the head when the two parts are applied upon opposite sides of a glove or other article and the eyelet clenched or upset within the studengaging member.

.lhe head or button iinish 1 is provided with a recess 2 in its back. The eyelet 3 has its flaring portion 4 inserted in the recess and then expanded or spread therein, so that its edge or marginal rim will actively and Iirmly engage the angle of the recess, as indicated in Fig. 2. The eyelet has a tubular part 5 to engage the stud-engaging member 6.` The stud-engaging member whether rigid or resilient has an opening 7 in its dome, and through this opening the tubular part 5 of the eyelet is passed into the studengaging member and then upset or clenched therein, as indicated in Fig. 3, so that the component parts of the socket-namely, the head or button finish with its attached eyelet and the stud-engaging member-may be united when placed upon opposite sides of a glove or other article 8 and at the same time and by the same means secured to such glove or other article.

Various modifications are within the scope of' this invention, and some of them will be described now. In Fig. 4 the eyelet 9 has a cap l() iitted to it, and the capped ey elet and head or button iinish 1 are united by pressure. In Fig. 6 the eyelet 11 has its flaring portion engaged in and by a hollow ring 12, previously or simultaneously liXed in the head. In Fig. 7 the head I3 has a metal lining 14 in its recess, which is previously or simultaneously united with it with reference to the application of the eyelet 15, this lining having a hollow bead 16, in which the rim of the eyelet is expanded or spread.

By the terms expanded" and spread and the like as herein used with reference to the securing of the eyelet in the lrecess of the head it is meant to include the springing of the eyelet in place. These are some but not all oi' the means by which these two parts are capable of being united.

Throughout the drawings the parts are more or less exaggerated in order to illustrate the principle of the invention more clearly than by an exact delineation of the structural details and proportions.

By the term head I mean to include not only a head technically so called, but also any button finish having the functions of a head, and by the term horn I mean to include hoof or other natural material capable of use in this connection and also compositions of matter suitable for the purpose.

What I claim is- 1. A snap-fastener socket member, having a stud-engaging member, a head of horn pro vided with a rec-ess, and a astening-eyelet of funnel shape and having its i'lared portion expanded in said recess and its tubular portion upset Within the stud-engaging member to attach the device to an article.

2. A snap-fastener socket member, having a stud-engaging member, a head of horn provided With a recess, and a fastening-eyelet of funnel shape and having its flared portion expanded in the inner angle of said recess and its tubular portion upset Within the studengaving member to attach the device to an artic e.

3. A snap-fastener socket member, having a stud-engaging member, a head of horn provided Wit'n a recess in its back, 'an eyelet inserted and rigidly secured in said recess and having a portion projecting beyond the head and adapted to enter and be upset in the stud-engaging member and thereby secure the stud-engaging member to the head and to the glove or other article.

In testimony WhereoiI I have hereunto set my hand, this 30th day of December, A. D. 1905, at Waterbury, Connecticut.

THEOPHILUS R. HYDE, JR.

Viitnesses: I

C. M. DE Mori, J. H. FILLING. 

